April 3, 2015, is Tzom Bechorot, Fast of the Firstborn when first-born Jews fast before the first seder of Passover. This day also ...

In focusing on ritual laws, Parashat Terumah teaches us that by reliving heroic historic moments we can introduce the transcendent into our daily lives.

Tsnius, or tzniut, is a word that means modesty, and refers to special Jewish laws about how men and women ...

No one ever told Jacob that his son Joseph was still alive.

It isn't Rosh Hashanah without duvshaniyot.

By Rabbi Benjamin Spratt and Rabbi Joshua Stanton A teaching from Sukkot merits our attention. Amid the building of huts ...

How evolutionary theory supports a mystical worldview.

To say this year will be a different way to mark the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ...

The realization suddenly dawned on me at perhaps the most inappropriate of times. I was at the mourning gathering for ...

While Jewish tradition does not make a big deal of birthdays, there is no problem with celebrating them.